COHESIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cohesive mean? 

• COHESIVE (adjective)
  The adjective COHESIVE has 2 senses:

1. causing cohesion

2. cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated

  Familiarity information: COHESIVE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COHESIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Causing cohesion

Context example:

a cohesive agent

Similar:

adhesive (tending to adhere)

Derivation:

cohere (come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation)

cohesiveness (the state of cohering or sticking together)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated

Context example:

a cohesive organization

Similar:

united (characterized by unity; being or joined into a single entity)

Derivation:

cohere (cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole)

cohesiveness (the state of cohering or sticking together)

 Context examples 

A malignant germ cell tumor of the central nervous system composed of large cells that proliferate in cohesive nests and sheets.

(Central Nervous System Embryonal Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

An adenocarcinoma characterized by the presence of a diffuse cellular infiltrate which is composed of poorly cohesive cells with minimal or no glandular formations.

(Diffuse Type Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

“This makes the grains so sticky and cohesive that only heavy winds can move them. The prevailing winds aren’t strong enough to shape the dunes.”

('Electric Sands' Cover Titan, VOA News)

An autosomal dominant inherited adenocarcinoma that arises from the gastric mucosa and is characterized by the presence of poorly cohesive malignant cells and absence of glandular formations.

(Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

These communities tend to be cohesive and their turnover is rapid and sharp.

(Study by UGR and MIT reveals microbial plankton live in complex communities, University of Granada)

An adenocarcinoma that arises from the gastric mucosa and is characterized by the presence of both glandular and poorly cohesive malignant cellular components.

(Gastric Mixed Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

An inactive ingredient of the solid pharmaceutical dosage form added to cement the active and inert components of tablets together to maintain cohesive and discrete portions.

(Binder Excipient, NCI Thesaurus)

A process by which particles collect to form a cohesive mass or cluster.

(Aggregation, NCI Thesaurus)

This new study, however, has found that the reason why microbial plankton come together in complex, cohesive groups is to collectively face the nutrient-poor heterogeneous ecological landscape they live in.

(Study by UGR and MIT reveals microbial plankton live in complex communities, University of Granada)